Warning: Contains spoilers for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, part 3, episode #8.Bleach: Thousand Year Blood WarMayuri’s latest episode shows Mayuri’s Bankai undergoing a disturbing evolution. In part 3, episode 8, Mayuri’s group faced Pernida Parnkgjas, a Sternritter with the power to manipulate people and objects with her nerves. Mayuri’s quick thinking and scientific mind left him as the only one who could handle Pernida’s powers, and as such, most of the fight fell to him.
As Mayuri and Pernida’s fight continued, Mayuri activated her Bankai, which the other characters assumed was her normal Bankai of a giant baby-like creature, spewing poisonous gas everywhere. However, Mayuri revealed that he modified the power of his Bankai and certainly Mayuri’s new Bankai in Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War It’s one of the most disturbing things ever associated with the characterif not Bleachin general. All of this is perfectly in line with Mayuri’s character, of course, and overall, it’s great to see something like this so late. Bleachthe story.
Mayuri’s Disturbing New Bankai in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Explained
Mayuri’s new Bankai is called Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō Matai Fukuin Shōtai, which takes the form of a giant purple baby and, immediately after being summoned, opens its stomach to generate a normal Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo.the images make crude comparisons to a woman giving birth by cesarean section. The Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo has different powers depending on the information Mayuri input into her Bankai; in this case, his nerves are all on the outside of his body and detach whenever Pernida attacks him, which has the side effect of feeling pain whenever he moves.
Every facet of Mayuri’s new Bankai is disgusting and disturbing, and the visuals made it even better. Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War part 3, episode 8 was another episode with great art and animation, and most of it seemed to have been reserved for Mayuri, as Bleach: Thousand Year Blood WarThe anime went to great lengths to make Mayuri’s Bankai look as good as possible to emphasize how disgusting every aspect of it was supposed to be.. Something like Mayuri’s Bankai needed to look as horrific as possible, and the anime more than achieved that.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Bloody War Reminds Fans of Mayuri’s True Character
Mayuri was never considered one of Bleach’s heroines
Even beyond Mayuri’s new Bankai, Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War did an excellent job reminding people of Mayuri’s true character. For years, Mayuri has been portrayed largely as comic relief, his writing making him a goofy mad scientist whose cruelty is played for laughs while he’s an unabashed good guy, but that wasn’t the case in his debut. Bleach originally wrote Mayuri as a straightforward and sadistic villain who gleefully tortured people in the pursuit of sciencewhether that meant brutally dissecting Uryu’s grandfather and other Quincy, implanting bombs in his subordinates, or even physically abusing his daughter, Nemu.
Bleach quickly reduced Mayuri’s depravity, but this was never fully written down. The disturbing nature of Mayuri’s Bankai is one thing, but he also fights with fleshy weapons that resemble people screaming in agony, which they very likely are, and he spends the fight reveling in the idea of capturing Pernida and experimenting on him. Bleach: Thousand Year Blood WarThe latest episode is a perfect reminder that Mayuri is a sadistic maniac due to the cruelty of his powers and personality.and with the fight with Pernida still going on, Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War There are certainly more moments like this in store.
Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War releases new episodes on Saturdays on Hulu.